Wolfgang Wasow Lectures

Wolfgang Wasow was a Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics. The Wolfgang Wasow Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture made possible by a generous endowment established by his children after his death in 1993. Professor Wasow joined the Department in 1957 and was Chair from 1970 to 1972. He retired as Rudolf E. Langer Professor of Mathematics in 1980.

Wolfgang’s research speciality was asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations. He wrote three, now classic, books “Finite Difference Methods for Partial Differential Equations” (with G.E. Forsythe) published in 1960, “Asymptotic expansions for ordinary differential equations” published in 1965 (revised in 1976), and “Linear Turning Point Theory” published in 1985. Among his non-mathematical interests were music, literature, and languages.

Wolfgang Wasow Lecturers

Year	Lecturer
1996	Jürgen Moser
1997	Joseph Keller
1998	Louis Nirenberg
1999	Cathleen Morawetz
2000	L.C. Evans
2001	Peter Lax
2002	John-Erik Fornaess
2003	Nancy Kopell
2004	Michael Christ
2005	Stan Osher
2006	Elias M. Stein
2007	Barry Simon
2008	Yum Tong Siu
2009	Michael Crandall
2010	Peter Markowich
2011	Henri Berestycki
2013	Laure Saint Raymond
2014	Christopher D. Sogge
2017	Benoit Perthame
2017	Sylvia Serfaty
2018	Hitoshi Ishii
2019	Vladimir Sverak
2021	Jon Chapman
2023	Rupert Klein